Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue

Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue

Worth it · Strategy · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
0.3h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
93% positive
Length
0.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
93%
1,556 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 256mb Video Memory, capable of Shader Model 2.0+. Windows only.

Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue is a battle sim about managing your own Gladiator Guild in an epic fantasy world. Build and run your own guild, hire and train gladiators, develop unique tactics, manage resources, compete for the rank in the arena, and much more.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
Length0.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom: Classic (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Dragon Cliff ($9.99, scores 77).

The main story runs 0.3 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 4.7 times as long.

The drop-off

85% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1332470/gladiator-guild-manager-prologue
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperEntertainment Forge
PublisherGrabTheGames
GenreStrategy
Released2020
Achievements6